The Private Patient

基本信息

Series:Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery

Format:Paperback / softback 416 pages

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Imprint:Faber & Faber

Edition:Main

ISBN:9780571345120

Published:10 May 2018

Weight:332g

Dimensions:130 x 198 x 27 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

一部挖掘家族神秘传奇的推理代表作《庄园诊所谜案》

——荣获英国推理小说钻石匕首奖、美国推理大师奖

每个人都有过去残留的阴影、一个阴暗的故事

而他们都以为，这个庄园的私家诊所可以让一切重新开始...

童年的阴影、一只破碎的酒杯、女记者脸上残留淡漠阴影的疤痕、整形庄园竟无法给女记者一个崭新的人生

一位被人揭发抄袭而选择自杀的小说家、一个为争遗产意外丧命的俊美男子，在这复杂又华美的庄园，一桩桩憾事正要上演

一个女子在整形之后遭到杀害，这个揭人丑闻的女记者，渴望幼年的疤痕一旦去除即可让一切重新开始，终于能如愿除疤的她却意外丧命，究竟她碰上了什么麻烦，庄园又暗藏什么杀机？悬疑的谜团愈加迷离、细腻的心理铺陈直指人心，《庄园诊所谜案》成为詹姆斯极具份量的当代小说，更是风靡全球的詹姆丝让期待已久的书迷更为惊喜的最新力作！

一个整形医生买下了从小梦想的静美庄园，把西厢改为诊所……这个美丽的庄园暗藏着多少不为人知的秘密？出生在一个冷漠家庭的女记者，从小被嗜酒的父亲失手打破的酒杯重伤了脸，疤痕跟着她度过了孤独的成长时期……

一位以挖掘他人丑事而闻名的女调查记者罗达·格瑞德，现年四十七岁，小有名气，前途大有可为。她住进钱德勒-鲍威尔医师位于多塞郡的私人诊所，目的是想除掉脸上跟着她已有数十年之久的疤痕。整形手术前，一切似乎都无须担忧：手术安全无虞，没有不成功的理由，术后又能在多塞郡最美丽的庄园静养一周，眼看新生活就在眼前等着她。然而，她却在术后不久遇害。庄园里的成员个个有嫌疑，却都没有强而有力的犯案动机。达格利什的团队受命前来调查这起命案，以及随后发生的第二起命案，并逐步陷入比有罪与否更加纠结复杂的难题之中……这部让书迷期待已久的詹姆斯作品，一样可以找得到詹姆丝的专属特色：对人物角色丰富细腻的刻画、精湛动人的心理描写，栩栩如生的场景，还有紧张刺激的悬疑情节……

A beautiful new edition of The Private Patient, published for the first time as a Faber Paperback.

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation and the beginning of a new life. But she was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive.

Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder, and later a second death, which raises far more complicated problems than merely the question of innocence or guilt . . .

作者简介

P.D. 詹姆斯出生于英国伦敦牛津，尽管只有高中毕业，但詹姆斯凭借其勤奋自修的学识，与文笔脱俗的创作，得到文学圈极高的赞誉。她三十八岁开始发表作品，四十二岁时完成长篇推理《掩上她的脸》（Cover Her Face，1962），赢得文坛一片赞赏。她的作品《夜莺的尸衣》和《教堂谋杀案》均获得CWA和MWA最佳小说奖。

由于写作有成，她获得许多国际知名文学奖，包括在英国犯罪作家推理协会颁发的、有“诺贝尔推理文学奖”之称的“钻石匕首奖”，并受英国皇室勋封为女男爵，更获颁美国侦探作家协会终身成就奖——“大师奖”，以及“爱伦·坡奖”。

P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray, and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Innocent Blood (1980), Children of Men (1992), and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011).

James was born in Oxford in 1920. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, and stood down from this role in 2013.